You know it's scary when...

"Don't look away!"

Venom was not in attendance at the Doctor Who party, because she was at a different party. This left her alone on the sofa (not behind it) to watch the latest episode. There were shrieks (as the other two traumatized children were trying to fall asleep); there was the cry of, "Mommy!? Are you coming to watch this with me?? There were more shrieks--and she can really shriek--we've known that since her birth.

Finally, as the episode concluded,

"I think I might need a floor bed."

Floor beds were our way of solving the problem of terrified or otherwise sleepless small children in the middle of the night. We wouldn't let them in the bed with us (those of you who like to be crammed onto the edges of the mattress by restless toddlers--whatever), but we would let sleepless small thing drag in a pillow and blanket and curl up on the floor next to our bed. Everyone falls back to sleep faster that way.

Floor beds haven't happened in a while. A long while. Even for Young Adventurer. If Venom wants one now, she's going to have to move the laundry baskets herself...and sleep with the lights on--I'm totally sleeping with the lights on tonight...